Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-14

y Poll taxes are delinquent the secon
4 Monday in Move mber.
K Martin Wagne leaves for week
: visit to Portland TO- morrow.
t Col. Ed McCdnville is organizing
: militia company IN Lewiston.
Miss Emma McGaffee left yesterda,
for winters visit to California.
A. Binnarj and wife, of Lewiston are
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Wax.
The new church directory will stant
without change until further notice.
The lake county is said to afford lots
of sport for duck hunters these days.
Wallace Scott ID confined to his resi-
dence at Mt. Idaho with severe rheuma-
tism.
Mr.. Gardner returned Monday from a
trip to Pomeroy and reports hard times
down there.
E. A. Crea, of Grangeville, called and
subscribed Saturday for the Idaho coun-
ty newsgiyer.
Hiram Robbins was appointed super
intendent of the public schools for the
current quarter.
Some mechanic ought to invent a
machine to clean lamp chimneys.
There's millions in it.
Chas. V. Coon, former resident of
this burg, is now running an express
wagon in Walla Walla.
Money orders aggregating $780,. go
were issued at the Mt. Idaho post office
for the first week in October.
j. j. Remington is saving the lumber
on his White Bird ranch for Castles
new ferry across the Salmon.
There was some brilliant" chess play
ing at John Days on the 3rd of this
month. Cause, French Cider"
Chas. F. Leland, the business head of
the Lewiston "Heller," passed through
town last week bound for Warrens.
The Mt. Idaho -four mill is running
on full time and is receiving great guam
titles of wheat in q kchange for -four.
Roundup notices and other items of
information in the several districts are
always published free of charge in this
paper.
c. S. McCready raised 126 bushels flax
from u acres this season, this being the
second crop of that staple ON the same
ground.
DR.. Kirkwood was up from Snake
river last week and returned Tuesday
with his family. The sheep will arrive
next spring.
Peter Beamer and Jas. Buchanan
were out from American creek last week |
shaking hands With friends and re-
turned Tuesday.
Mr. J. Ii. Rauch, of Pendleton, Ogn.,
formerly resident of this place,
arrived on Mondays stage on visit of
two or three weeks.
The proposed telephone line from |
Grangeville to Mt Idaho will be built |
when the litigation between the rival
companies is settled.
Last weeks PREss is said to be the
best paper We have published this year.
Pity the people hereabouts don't SUBJ
scribe for it more literally.
When you are ln Lewiston call on
w. w. Swank & Co., and examine
their large stock of Harness and saddles
at astonishingly low prices.
Copies of the FREE PRESS of August s.
containing "Infor ormation for Immi-
grants" can be had ready for mailing
free of cost on application to this office.
Sam Dillinger is on the prairie again
having made his final cleanup for the |
season in the old Dixie diggings, which
netted him fairly for his summers
work.
The wheat market is still in a state of
collapse. In Lewiston the price sacked
and f. o. b., is forty cents, but the
transactions are nominal and no
demand.
Notwithstanding the reduction of in
terest from ten to seven per cent. on
county warrants we still take 'em at
par on subscription and advertising
account.
Levi Castle claims the heaviest yield
of wheat on the prairie, he having
threshed 628 bushels from fourteen
acres also 275 bushels fax from anoth-
er fourteen acres. Levi takes the belt
so far as heard from, and subscribed for
the fireside companion on the strength
of it.
Lightning struck A. b. Rockies kltch-
en- the other day knocking down the
stove pipe, setting fire to table cloth
and doing other damage. The cat and
L.. elaan;no hy tha stove were bad1y